| Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Testimony of James W McCord (Jim McCord) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 10361 |
| Catalog #: | 474722 | |
| Clip Number: | 474722-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 102001 | |
| Timecode: | 02:04:28 - 02:06:18 | |
| Location: | Washington DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1973 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: Hearings, Watergate LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. | |
| Description: | Master 10361 Part 3 Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee Hearings on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 18, 1973. Testimony of James W McCord (Jim McCord) accompanied by Bernard Fensterwald Jr, Counsel Caucus Room, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC Mr. James McCORD. Yes, sir. I further advised Caulfield that I believed that the Government had lied in denying electronic interception of my phone calls from my residence since June 17, 1972, and that I believed that the administration had also tapped the phones of the other defendants during that time. I mentioned two specific calls of mine which I had made during September and early October 1972, which I was certain had been intercepted by the Government, and yet the Government had blithely denied any such tapping. These were my words to Mr. Caulfield. I compared this denial to the denial that the Government had made in the Ellsberg case, in which for months the Government had denied any such impermissible interception of the calls, and yet in the summer of 1972 had finally been forced to admit them when the judge ordered, by court order, a search of about a dozen Government agencies, and calls intercepted were then disclosed. I might state separate from the record at this point, that as I have previously stated, I had no knowledge whatever of any activity monitorially or what have you, of Mr. Ellsberg's calls as have previously come out-- as have earlier come out in the newspapers in the past few days. It is purely coincidence that I happen to mention the Ellsberg case at that time, I had been following the case in the papers and I knew the history of the case. To go on with the statement: I stated that if we were going to get a fiction of a fair trial, through perjured testimony to begin with, and then for the Government to lie about illegal telephone interceptions that the trial ought to be kicked out and we start all over again, this time with all of those involved as defendants. | |
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